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Monthly Archives: April 2014

One sure sign Spring is making its presence felt is the return of the birds to the garden. They make wonderful guests in my vegetable garden, chirping and singing merrily, soaring and diving in search of early season bugs (they’re welcome to all they can catch!) I sometimes have to stop the frantic work […]

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This time of year I spend an inordinate amount of time in the seedling house. It’s wonderful. For years I made my soil blocks and planted seeds into them in the basement. My back still aches at the memory of being hunched over so as not to bump my head on the heating ducts working in the […]

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Nowhere is spring felt more keenly than on the small-scale, diversified farm. Every day the snow recedes further from the gardens. The three foot drifts present only a week ago have been reduced in some places to two or three inches of stubborn hard packed ice, in others flowing water and in more and more […]

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I don’t watch television. For one thing, it takes up too much time. For another I don’t like being pummeled with images and sounds in such rapid succession, especially when so many of them are aimed at making me buy things I don’t want or need. But the main reason I don’t watch T.V. is […]

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Ryan Parker

Ryan Parker is a farmer, writer, artist and musician. He currently lives in Central Maine with his wife, two children, a golden retriever, some pigs and chickens. He raises pastured and forested animals and grows a diverse range of vegetables without synthetic chemicals, pesticides, herbicides or taxpayer subsidies.